brian bloom

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The fight for storage space

Every time there's a leap in capacity or performance, new new reasons to store things for longer appear as well. Is IT losing the race?

The bottom line on IBM mainframes

It's 2012, and Big Blue is doing a roaring trade in mainframes. Learn about why enterprises still see value in big iron

Canadian banks seek IT ‘talent pipeline’

Why does the Canadian financial sector face a shortage of IT skills while new IT graduates complain about the lack of job prospects? Find out what strategies were explored at an industry forum rnrn

Lawyer: tread carefully in the cloud

After an outage that hit Air Canada, National Bank and others, a lawyer and security expert offer tips on what to look for in cloud service agreements

3M creates high-density material for PCBs

Embedded Capacitance Material is used to reduce the number of passive components needed on PCBs, which could lead to smaller, more efficient devices

Canadian universities moving to cloud

Institutions are turning to collaboration tools like IBM SmartCloud for Social Business and Google Docs for learning and honing management skills

Medicine gets ‘super power’

IBM's Watson made a splash at Lotusphere 2012, promising medical advances. Find out what a Canadian pathologist thinks about having computers as colleagues

Cloud provides tape archive alternative

Will cloud provide a viable long-term archiving option to magnetic tape? It depends on the application, experts say

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